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24-year-old killed in crash near Buckfield

Police are trying to determine why Alexander Pond drove his car into the path of an oncoming pickup truck in Buckfield Wednesday on Route 117.
Credit: NCM

BUCKFIELD, Maine — A 24-year-old man died in a crash Wednesday evening when his car crossed the center-line of Route 117 and hit a truck head-on. 

Police are trying to determine why Alexander Pond drove his car into the path of an oncoming pickup truck in Buckfield Wednesday on Route 117 around 5 p.m. 

The crash happened near the highway's intersection with Cross Road, an area just beyond a cement bridge that crosses the Nezinscot River traveling west.

The crash site was closed for over five hours. 

Pond was driving a Volkswagen Beetle. A 55-year-old woman was driving the vehicle that collided with the car - a Ford F350 pickup truck hauling a trailer. She was taken to the hospital as a precaution for non-life threatening injuries.

State Police are still trying to determine why Pond drove his car over the centerline and into the path of an oncoming pickup truck. 

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